APT: the security threat we love to hate

In this episode I am once again joined by my co-host, Mitchell Ashley and our guest is Michael Sutton, VP of security research at Zscaler. The topic is APT: Advanced Persistent Threat, the security threat everyone loves to hate. Many people think that APT have been over-hyped by both the infosec media and APT vendors who have ridden the APT scare to fame and fortune (well to fortune anyway).  But APTs are real. Whether by spear phishing or water hole drive by downloads, targets are being infected with APT attacks, Once infected they are used to first infiltrate and then exfiltrate from high value networks. Some APTs are the work of nation-state entities for strategic goals, others are financial in motivation. But they are seldom random.  Michael tells what Zscaler is doing to combat APTs. Mitchell and I have our own views on this whole class of attack and it makes for a good listen.   Enjoy!